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(11) | EP 2 364 605 A3 |
(12) | EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION |
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(54) | Method of opening cigarette covers and an assembly for opening cigarette covers in a machine for recovering tobacco from defective and/or substandard cigarettes |
(57) Method of opening a cigarette wrapper including cutting open a cigarette transported
in a guiding groove of a feeder of a machine for recovering tobacco from defective
and/or substandard cigarettes with at least one revolving disc knife located above
the feeder, in which the at least one revolving disc knife is applied to the cigarette
in such a way that the axis of rotation on which the said disc knife is perpendicularly
mounted lies on a plane parallel to the plane over which the cigarette axis is translated,
and the plane of the disc knife does not contain the cigarette axis and is parallel
to the said cigarette axis, the possibility of rotation of the cigarette around its
axis in the guiding groove is blocked, whereby tensile stress is applied in the cigarette
wrapper facilitating its opening. Assembly for applying the method according to the invention. |